While “it’s gravity keeps us from drifting lifeless and cold through space” (as one colleague quipped) … it’s the sun that we worship.

Photo: Childlike glee takes flight when a trio of nuns from the Order of St. Benedict make a splash in the Pacific Ocean while vacationing at Grayland in 1960. The photographer was Tom Brownell. Credit SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER

We eat more salads and fruit … because, one, they’re tastier in summer and, two, (like the men mentioned above) we’re fantasizing about looking like those tanned models on magazine covers ... or the hipsters of old ... Photo: Dancers at the Rainbow tavern, 1980. Credit: PI file. less

We eat more salads and fruit … because, one, they’re tastier in summer and, two, (like the men mentioned above) we’re fantasizing about looking like those tanned models on magazine covers ... or the ... more

We make different cocktails … more crushed fruit but less sugar ... Photo-6294093.85626 - seattlepi.com

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… speaking of which margaritas sound good earlier in the afternoon during the summer … Photo: Seattle's Butler Bar sometime during prohibition, which in Washington State started in 1916. Credit: PI file

… speaking of which margaritas sound good earlier in the afternoon during the summer … Photo: Seattle's Butler Bar sometime during prohibition, which in Washington State started in 1916. Credit: PI file

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… speaking of which margaritas sound good earlier in the... Photo-6294094.85626 - seattlepi.com

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But, we worry more about our weight since we can’t hide beneath layers and layers and jackets and hoods, hats or the occasional umbrella.

Photo: Cigar-chomping trainer Eddie Marino laces up a glove on middleweight titleholder Al Hostak for his Sept. 18, 1938 bout with Young Stuhly at Seattle's Civic Auditorium. Frank "Slim" Lynch lit the scene from below so that a ghostly light plays over the scene.

Likewise, we ogle each other much more (and not always in a creepy... Photo-6294096.85626 - seattlepi.com

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We exercise more since it’s nice out and we’re looking for excuses to get out more and be dazzled by the sun.

Photo: World’s fair at UW, 1909: Seattle’s first world’s fair, the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, was staged on the University of Washington campus to commemorate the city’s growth since the Klondike Gold Rush. This postcard shows many of the elaborate buildings, seen across Geyser Basin, which later became known as Frosh Pond. A new geyser, Drumheller Fountain, was donated for the university’s centennial celebration in 1961.

We exercise more since it’s nice out and we’re looking for... Photo-6294097.85626 - seattlepi.com

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Walking is a pleasure … instead of a trek through a gauntlet of mist and rain.

Photo: The wonders of Washington, 1909: Elaborate buildings and an elegant midway were built for the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition in 1909. The Manufacturers Building, pictured above, was part of Washington Circle, a group of exhibition buildings showing visitors the many wonders of Washington state. The midway featured the highest Ferris wheel in the world.

Walking is a pleasure … instead of a trek through a gauntlet of... Photo-6294098.85626 - seattlepi.com

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Take longer lunches (… see earlier reference to margaritas).

Photo: Before the Pike Place Market opened in 1907, farmers and shoppers informally met to trade along Western Avenue. Small farms, often tended by recent immigrants, spread through Rainier Valley and the valleys of the Duwamish, Black and White rivers south of the Seattle, as well as valleys far to the east. The market's building, the arcade opened in 1907, followed by the Sanitary Market in 1910.

Business folks try to schedule more “walking meetings” … just like when kids get to have class outside. You’re not as efficient, but who cares! Photo: Seattle Center. Nov. 23, 1963. (seattlepi.com file photo)

Business folks try to schedule more “walking meetings” … just like when kids get to have class outside. You’re not as efficient, but who cares! Photo: Seattle Center. Nov. 23, 1963. (seattlepi.com file

Photo: The April 1976 P-I photo caption read: With one small exception, these passengers on the Galaxie, one of the most popular rides at Seattle Center's Fun Forest, seem to be having the time of their lives. (Grant M. Haller/Seattlepi.com file)